Workers at Crown Central Claim
Firm Blocks 401(k) Withdrawals

A group of workers claims their employer is refusing to give them access to their 401(k) plan money as a way of applying economic leverage in a labor dispute.

Some employees at Crown Central Petroleum Corp. say the company, which locked out 260 workers from its Pasadena, Texas, refinery on Feb. 5, is making it difficult or impossible for them to obtain hardship withdrawals from their 401(k) plan. Bernard Middleton, an attorney for the...